Ever since the inception of T20 cricket, the format has gained a lot of fans and made the sport even more exciting. Tied matches in this format of the game means excitement and the winner was decided via bowl-outs like penalty shoot-outs in football.
The Super Over rule was brought into T20 cricket to make the format even more exciting. Earlier in 2024, the India versus Afghanistan game went into double-super over. The fans who witnessed the game were at the edge of the seat while the others were using various websites for live cricket score.
Whenever T20 matches make it to the Super Over stage, it certainly becomes historic for a huge cricket news. In this article we look at the top 3 nail-biting super overs in the history of T20 cricket.
3. India vs New Zealand – Hamilton, 2020
Team India had batted first and posted 179/5 from their 20 overs with Rohit Sharma top-scoring with 65 runs. Kane Williamson, then scored 95 runs as the Kiwis could only manage to tie the game in regulation time.
The home team scored 17 runs from six balls with Kane Williamson hitting Jasprit Bumrah for a four and a six as Guptill hit one four. India needed ten runs of two balls and Rohit Sharma hit two sixes in a row to win the game.
2. Pakistan vs Australia – Dubai, 2012
45 runs each from Mohammad Hafeez and Nasir Jamshed, 43 by Kamran Akmal helped Pakistan reach 151/4 from their 20 overs. The Australians were in commanding situation at one stage before wickets started to tumble.
George Bailey then struck 42 off 27 balls as the game ended in a tie. Umar Gul bowled the super over and gave away 12 runs. Pat Cummins bowled a wide ball in the last ball to help Pakistan win in exciting fashion.
1. India vs Afghanistan – Bengaluru, 2024
Century by Rohit Sharma and 69 by Rinku Singh helped post 212/4 from their 20 overs. In reply each of the top 3 Afghanistan batter scored a fifty before Mohammad Nabi’s 34 helped tie the game.
16 runs were scored by Afghanistan is the first super-over as India ended up with the same total. The second-super over saw India post 11 runs before Afghanistan could score only one run to lose by ten.